THE ALLIED SPECIAL FORCES MEMORIAL GROVE IS SITUATED WITHIN THE NATIONAL MEMORIAL ARBORETUM BY THE BANKS OF THE RIVER TAME
 THE ALLIED SPECIAL FORCES ROLL OF  HONOUR

Special Operations Executive

Surnames G to H

We are intending to list all Allied Special Forces casualties from the 2nd. World War and in the conflicts since. If you wish to add to this detail please contact us! Certain information may be under review and this is noted under the name. This list is not complete and some inaccuracies may occur whilst we are receiving information from many sources.


GAILLOT Lieutenant Henri Hubert 282433 1st. March 1944 Age 48
General List attd. Special Operations Executive
UNITED KINGDOM - BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL - Surrey - Panel 22. Column 1.
GARDE Lieutenant Pierre 313547 14th. September 1944 Age 37
General List attd. Special Operations Executive
UNITED KINGDOM - BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL - Surrey - Panel 22. Column 1.
GARDNER Serjeant Dennis 14290042 8th. June 1944 Age 20
2nd. Northamptonshire Yeomanry R.A.C. attd. Special Operations Executive
Mentioned in Despatches - Codename Ernest. Jedburgh Team Veganin. Parachute failed.
FRANCE - BEAUREPAIRE (1940) COMMUNAL CEMETERY - Isere - Row 6
GARRY Lieutenant Emile August Henri 309242 9th. September 1944 Age -
General List attd. Special Operations Executive
UNITED KINGDOM - BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL - Surrey - Panel 22. Column 1.
GEELEN Lieutenant P.A.H. - 9th. September 1944 Age -
F Section - Special Operations Executive
Belgium National - Codename Pierre - Labourer Circuit - Died at Buchenwald
Source Secret War by Nigel West and Valencay Memorial
SOE F. Section Memorial - VALENCAY, FRANCE
GOLDSTEIN Private Peretz
(Ferenz/Ferko)
ME/14500225 1st. March 1945 Age -
Pioneer Corps. & Special Operations Executive
A Palestinian Jew was presumed to have died on or shortly after 1st. March 1945 while a Prisoner of War.
ATHENS MEMORIAL - Greece - Face 9
GOUGH Captain Victor Albert 148884 29th. November 1944 Age -
Somerset Light Infantry attd. Special Operations Executive
Codename Arran - Jedburgh Team Jacob. Executed.
GERMANY - DURNBACH WAR CEMETERY - 3.K.22
GRAHAM Serjeant Harry Huntington 800964 29th. March 1945 Age 34
Royal Artillery attd. Special Operations Executive
SOE F Section - Mentioned in Despatches
UNITED KINGDOM - BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL - Surrey - Panel 2. Column 3.
F. Section Memorial - VALENCAY, FRANCE
GRAHAM Lieutenant Ronald 225884 18th. September 1942 Age 32
General List attd. Special Operations Executive
SOE Malaya - Executed with Lt. Vanrenen
SINGAPORE MEMORIAL - Column 113
GROVER-WILLIAMS Captain William Charles Frederick 231189 18th. March 1945 Age 42
General List attd. Special Operations Executive
Croix de Guerre
UNITED KINGDOM - BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL - Surrey - Panel 21. Column 3.
GRUNHUT/GRUENHUT
(Jamay)
(Ben-Yaakov
Sergeant (Zvi) J. 769407 20th. October 1944 Age 22
Royal Air Force Volunter Reserve & Special Operations Executive

Sergeant Grunhut/Gruenhut was a Palestinian Jewish SOE Agent (Agent Names - Uncle and Leadburn) who served as a member of "A" Force in Slovakia on "Operation Amsterdam". Alias Fl which commenced in August 1944. Alias Flight Sergeant or 2nd. Lieutenant M. Jamay is believed to have been captured in British uniform by the Germans on 31st. October 1944 in the vacinity of Banska Bystrica, the Slovak Partisan Headquarters.
Source AJEX.
Other Information: - Codename Uncle/Leadburn - POW and executed at Mauthausen, Austria - Polish Jew

Alamein Memorial - Egypt - Column 280
HABIB Jemadar Shah 91217 24th. February 1943 Age 33
Indian Engineers - Special Operations Executive
SOE Ceylon - Accidebtally Killed - Operation Bunkum, Andamun Islands
Source "Secret War" by Nigel West
KARACHI 1939-1945 WAR MEMORIAL - PAKISTAN
HALLEY Captain Paul Vladimar - 19th. April 1945 Age -
General List - Canadian Army - Special Operations Executive
Canadian Linguist - SOE Operations Officer - Killed in Car Crash
CALCUTTA (Bhowanipore) CEMETERY, INDIA - Plot L. Grave 213
HAMILTON Lieutenant John Trevor 250966 1st. May 1944 Age 37
General List attd. Special Operations Executive
UNITED KINGDOM - BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL - Surrey - Panel 22. Column 1.
HANAU Colonel Julias - 11th. May 1943 Age 58
Intelligence Corps. - Special Operations Executive
SOE Cairo, Egypt - Died of Heart Attack
Order of the British Empire
hELIOPOLIS WAR CEMETERY, EGYPT - 3.F.32
HANDLEY Sergeant Thomas Edward 2352299 10th. April 1945 Age 30
Royal Corps. of Signals - Special Operations Executive
SOE Radio Operator - Became a POW during attack on Corinth Canal
Military Medal
ATHENS MEMORIAL, GREECE - Face 6
HAYES Captain Victor Charles 211716 1st. August 1944 Age 35
General List attd. Special Operations Executive
Member of the British Empire
UNITED KINGDOM - BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL - Surrey - Panel 21. Column 3.
HESKETH Major Pritchard Alfred Cecil Giles 143446 3rd. December 1944 Age 28
Royal Fusiliers - Special Operations Executive
SOE X Section (German) - Missing on Operation Clowder (Yugoslavia/Austria)
ATHENS MEMORIAL, GREECE - Face 5
HILL Bombadier William Arthur 740696 7th. November 1943 Age 24
Royal Artillery attd. Special Operations Executive
GREECE - ATHENS MEMORIAL - Face 2
HOFFMAN Lieutenant Ernst 318481 10th. October - 25th. December 1944 Age -
General List attd. Special Operations Executive
UNITED KINGDOM - BROOKWOOD MEMORIAL - Surrey - Panel 22. Column 1.
HUBBARD Lieutenant Wilfred Arthur 20475 13th. October 1943 Age 29
New Zealand Corps. attd. Special Operations Executive
S.O.E. Greece shot by ELAS gunman.
GREECE - PHALERON WAR CEMETERY - 22.G.17
HUBBLE Captain Desmond Ellis 109634 11th. September 1944 Age 34
Intelligence Corps attd. Special Operations Executive
Croix de Chevalier de L'Ordre Royal du Lion avec Palme (Belgium)
Croix de Guerre avec Palme (Belgium) Mentioned in Despatches
FRANCE - BAYEUX MEMORIAL - Calvados - Panel 19. Column 1.